iii, 314.

Diocletian, story of the emperor,
iii, 158.

Diseases, particular, names of saints
invoked against, i, 363.
Disguising, Christmas custom of,
i, 461-3.

forbidden by King Henry
VIII, i, 465.

Dismas, St., i, 364.

gathering at a wedding in Essex,
ii, 150.

Doge of Venice, espousal of the
Adriatic by, i, 209.

Dogs, not allowed to pass between
a couple to be married,
ii, 170.

HOWLING OF, iii, 184-6.

DOLES and INVITING THE POOR TO
FUNERALS, ii, 287.

before a bride, ii, 133.

Distaff's Day, St., or the morrow
after Twelfth Day, i, 32.
DIVINATION, iii, 329-60.

on May Day, preserved in
Gay's Shepherd's Week,
i, 217.

with nuts, i, 379, -1.
with apple-parings, i, 385.
AT WEDDINGS, ii, 165.
by drawing cards, ii, 451.
by the psalter, iii, 338.
by arrows, iii, 331.

BY VIRGILIAN, HOMERIC, or
BIBLE LOTS, iii, 336.
BY THE SPEAL or BLADE-

BONE, iii, 339-40.

by bachelor's buttons, iii, 340.
BY THE ERECTION OF FI-
GURES ASTROLOGICAL, iii,
341.

BY THE FINGER-NAILS, iii,
350.

BY SIEVE AND SHEARS, iii,
351.

BY ONIONS AND FAGGOTS,
iii, 356.

BY A GREEN IVY-LEAF, iii,
357.

BY FLOWERS, iii, 358.

Divining rod, iii, 332.5.

employed for the discovery of

lodes of ore, iii, 333.

"Dominica Refectionis," i, 111.
Donatian, St., i, 364.

Donne, Mr., bequest of, for the
ringing of Bow bells, ii, 224.
Dooinney-oie, or nightman, the,
iii, 414.

Dore, Mary, the parochial witch of
Beaulieu, iii, 14.

DOREE, iii, 362.

Dorinda, lines to, on Valentine's Day,
i, 55.

Dorsetshire, custom in, on Easter

Eve, i, 160.
of perambulation in,
Rogation week,
i, 206.

Douay, figure of a giant annually
burnt at, i, 325.

Douce, Francis, his translation of an
Anglo-Norman Carol, i, 482.
Dovers meeting, i, 277.
Doves, superstitions concerning, iii,
217-8.

Dough, meaning of, i, 526.
Dower, the woman's, anciently as-

signed at the church door, ii, 133.
Downy well, at Nigg, in Scotland,
ii, 376.

Drachaldy, well of, ii, 380.
Draco volans, iii, 402.

Dragon, custom of carrying about
the figure of a, on Mid-
summer Eve, i, 320.

Dragon, flying, i, 321.

atmospheric phenomena so
called, i, 321; iii, 410.

Drainy, co. Elgin, custom of the
penny wedding at, ii, 147.
DRAW GLOVES, sport so
ii, 416.

called,

Ri-

Drink-lean, i, 279.
Droitwich, custom at, on St.
chard's Day, i, 201.
Druidism, allusion to the supposed
sacrifices of, i, 326.
Druids, customs of the, at New
Year's tide, i, 17.

misletoe sacred to the, i, 109.
fires on the four great festi-

vals of the, i, 349.
hydromancy practised by the,
at wells, ii, 377.

rites of the, at the changes of

the moon, iii, 141.
magic of the, iii, 149-50.
DRUNKARD'S CLOAK, iii, 109.
Drunken groat, ii, 334.

Drunkenness increased amongst us
by the wars of the Low
Countries, ii, 331.

terms of, ii, 334.

DUCK and DRAKE, ii, 417.
Ducking-stool, iii, 102-3.

painting of a, at Ipswich,|
iii, 107.

Ducks, superstitions concerning, iii,

218.

foretell weather, iii, 243.

cake, i, 387; iii, 331.

Dundonald, Ayrshire, singular funeral
custom at, ii, 287.

Dunkeld, co. Perth, diversion of
riding at the ring at, ii, 437.
Little, fountain and chapel at,
ii, 371.

Dunkirk and Douay, immense figure
of basket-work annually made at,
i, 325.

DUNMOW FLITCH OF BACON, cere-
mony of the, ii, 177-80.
form of the oath when
claimed, ii, 177-8.
Dunscore, shire of Dumfries, yew
tree at, ii, 263.

Dunskey, cave near, iii, 148.
Dunstan, St., i, 364.

Dunton, co. Essex, church-offering
at, ii, 84.

Durham, rural address to St. Agnes
in, i, 37.

custom used at, of taking off

shoes, or rather buckles, in
the Easter holidays, i, 180.
custom of "orders" still re-

tained in the grammar-
school in the city of, i, 441.
yule cakes in the county of,
i, 526.

celebration of church wakes
in the county of, ii, 11.
harvest customs in the county
of, ii, 29.

riding the stang in, ii, 188-9.
garlands in churches in the
county of, ii, 303.

-letter concerning gipsies and

faws in, iii, 99, 100.
Dusius, a demon among the Gauls,
ii, 521.

raged by the flight of an, iii, 222.
Earnest, given at a bargain, iii, 262.
Ears, tingling of the, iii, 171-3.
Easling, co. Kent, custom at, on Nov.
30th, i, 415.

East, practice of worshipping toward
the, ii, 317-8.

sents of, in the North of
England, i, 168-9.
song of the pace-eggers, i,
176.

EVE, i, 157-60.

superstitions on, as related

by Naogeorgus, i, 157-8.
custom in Dorsetshire on,
i, 160.
HOLIDAYS, i, 176-84.

the celebration of, appointed
by King Alfred, i, 177.
London amusements in the,
detailed by Fitzstephen,
i, 177.

"Ecco la fico," ii, 182-3.

i, 167.

manner of celebrating among

the modern Greeks, i, 174.
called "Hye-tide," i, 189.
Monday, i, 177-81.

amusements of, on the bor-

Eclipses of the moon, superstitions
concerning, iii, 152-3.

Eden Hall, co. Cumb., St. Cuthbert's
well at, ii, 376.

Giant's Cave at, ii, 375.

luck of, ii, 487.

Edmonton, witch of, iii, 23.
Edmundsbury, St., custom of the
monks of, at wheat-seeding, i, 392.
Edmund's well, St., at Oxford, ii, 378.
Edward I lifted in his bed by the la-
dies of the bedchamber and
maids of honour on Easter
Monday, i, 181.

III, ceremony of the boy-bishop
presented before, A.D. 1299,
i, 428.

IV, coronation of, why put off,
i, 535.

VI, his alteration of the foun-
dation of Christ's College,
Cambridge, iii, 264-5.

Egg-feast, name of the Saturday pre-
ceding Shrove Tuesday, i,
64.
formerly at Oxford, i, 171.
shell broken after the meat is
out, iii, 19.

"Egg at Easter," proverb of an, i,
171.

Eggs and collops, a usual dish on
Collop or Shrove Monday, i,
62, 88.

-

-

laid on Good Friday preserved all
the year, i, 151, 174.

a usual dish on Good Friday, i,
151, 174.

and herbs on Easter Day, i, 164.
sports with, i, 169.

held by the Egyptians as a sa-

cred emblem of the renovation
of mankind after the deluge,
i, 169.

- in the ritual of Pope Paul V, con-
sidered emblematical of the
resurrection, i, 172.

the giving of, still prevalent
among the modern Greeks and
Russians, i, 174.

fire, ii, 490; iii, 408.
shots, ii, 490.

cake, ii, 492.
knots, ii, 492.

locks, ii, 492.

Elf's Kirk, cell or cave so called, ii,
494.

Elgin, and shire of Murray, Midsum-
mer custom in, i, 310.

Eligius, St., particulars concerning,
i, 361.

Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII, ce-
remony used by, at taking her
chamber, in order to her delivery,
ii, 66.
ELIZABETH, QUEEN, ACCESSION OF,
i, 404-8.

order of the Maunday practised
by, i, 145.6.

dined upon goose at Tilbury
Fort, i, 368-9.

portrait of, at Kirtling, co.
Cambridge, ii, 346.

fond of bear-sports, ii, 401.
magical practices against, iii, 11.
her expressions in her last ill-
ness, when dissuaded by her
courtiers from looking at a
comet, iii, 241.

ring sent to, by Lord Chancellor
Hatton, "to be worn betwixt
the sweet dugs," iii, 301.

leaves of the, iii, 248.

Eloy, St., account of, i, 361.

Ely, custom in the isle of, on Whir-

lin Sunday, i, 114.

Ember, or Ymbre days, i, 96.
Emmets, omens of weather, iii, 223.
England, kings of, the second of any

name unfortunate, iii, 268.
ENTERTAINMENTS, FUNERAL, ii, 237.
Ensign-bearers in London at the
Midsummer night's watch, i, 328.
Eolus, iii, 5.

"Ephesiæ literæ," iii, 323.
Ephesus, image of Diana at, iii, 323.
Epigram on burning the figures of
the Pope, the devil, and the Pre-
tender, i, 407.

Epilepsy, amulet against the, iii, 284.
Epiphany, customs of the, i, 21-2.
"Episcopatus puerorum," ceremony

of the, forbidden by the Council of
Saltzburg, A.D. 1274, i, 426.

ii, 251.

Epithalamium, ii, 161.

ii, 169.

EPPING STAG Hunt, iii, 395.
"Epulum novendiale," ii, 238.
Erasmus, St., i, 364-5.

Eric, St., i, 364.

ERRORS, VULGAR, iii, 379.

Erskine, parish of, in Scotland,
witches burnt at, iii, 30.

Ermyn, St., iii, 402.

Erysipelas, amulet against, iii, 284.
Eskdale, Cumberland, customs at,
ii, 288.

Eskdalemuir, co. Dumfries, annual
fair at, ii, 88.

ii, 249.

Evesham, co. Worc., custom among

the master-gardeners to give their
workpeople a treat of baked peas
on Holy Thursday, i, 208.
Evil, king's, touching for the, iii,
300-2.

eye, iii, 44-6, 326.

turning the coal, a counter-
charm to, iii, 44.
charm against, practised in
the west of Scotland,
iii, 47.

Euloge, St., i, 365.

riage, ii, 150.

Dunmow bacon, in, ii, 177-80.

ETHELBURGH'S DAY, ST., i, 374.

Eustace's well, St., at Withersden,

in Kent, ii, 371.
Eutrope, St., i, 365.

cholas at, i, 430.

i, 440.

ii, 1.

Zogation week, i, 207.